Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.